Alexei Valerievich Turchin

If we think that Seed AI is possible, then SETI is much more dangerous
than it was thought by Richard Carrigan in his article “Do potential
SETI signals need to be decontaminated?”

Any supercivilization that reached AI could send through space pieces
of
its
own source code by radio. These space viruses or trojans
would be executed by naïve early civilizations who would
then be eliminated by the code. Of
course it will be not only plain code. A simple and clear method
exists to send through radio signals a program which will be
compatible with any computer. Here are the needed steps:

1. At first it will contain video, where extraterrestrials will explain
their language and promise a lot of benefits if the code is
executed. (Video will be easily recognized by signals of line end and
picture end, as it was in old TV systems on Earth.)

Alexei Valerievich Turchin was the author of this article and is an
active participant in the Russian Transhumanist Movement who is
currently attending Moscow State University where he has studied
Physics and Art History. He is responsible for all
Russian translations on the Lifeboat Foundation site.

Alexei is currently working on the Russian book
Structure of global catastrophe and has published the Russian
novel
Walk in the forest, which describes an attempt to create a world
without
suffering, i.e. paradise engineering in
contemporary terms.